Eloísa Suárez López-Zuriaga began working in the field of programming and cultural management, organising the screening of German short films at SHORT SHOTS in Madrid while studying Politics at the Complutense University. She later moved to Berlin where she worked in the credentials department of the Berlinale, while attending a course in curating at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). She also managed the F40 art time space and programmed the sections dedicated to Argentina and Mexico at the Berlin Spanish Film Festival. From there, she moved to Mexico to work at the Goethe-Institut in Mexico City, where she managed the film and music projects of the Año Dual Alemania-México 2016- 17. While there, she also designed an introductory seminar to avant-garde German film, which she ran at different festivals, film club networks and cultural centres all over the country, as well as at La Casa del Cine in Costa Rica. During the Año Dual she collaborated with some of the most prominent Mexican festivals, organising film seasons such as the Berlinale Spotlight at the Morelia Festival, an exhaustive retrospective focusing on Angela Schanelec at FICUNAM, the animaentary programme at DOKLeipzig with Animasivo and Germany as the spotlight country at FICG, among others. She also programmed weekly film club meetings at the headquarters of the Goethe-Institut and compiled a season of 50 films to commemorate the 50th anniversary of that same institute in Mexico. She was responsible for managing the film archives and nurturing the network of film clubs, universities and cultural centres that regularly screen German films. She also programmed and produced the German Film Week from 2014 to 2017, organising collaborative initiatives with groups such as Sonido Gallo Negro, Cinema Domingo Orchestra and Cabezas de Cera to set several classic German films to music. She later became the Director of the Alternative Exhibition Network (cultural centres and Lighthouses) at PROCINE, designing Mexican film seasons and coordinating several premières. Since April 2018, she has been working at the film and music programming department of the Goethe-Institut in Madrid, collaborating with film festivals such as Punto de Vista, Filmadrid, Play-Doc, SEFF, FCAT and RIZOMA, and cultural centres such as La Casa Encendida, CBA and Tabakalera. She is also involved in the Campus Latino project, which runs year-long workshops for developing documentary projects from Latin America and Spain. She also contributed to the following publications: 'The New American Cinema Group' by Filmadrid, 'Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Amor y Rabia' in the Nosferatu Collection and 'Ute Aurand, Helga Fanderl, Jeannette Muñoz, Renate Sami' by Punto de Vista.
Last update of this profile: 2021
